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tinous downy stalks. Pet. bright yellow often spotted with 

 scarlet. St. 3 — 6 in. long. L. rigidly ciliate or with several 

 strong teeth. — Wet places on mountains. P. VII. — IX. E. S. I. 



**** Cal. erect or spreading superior or half inferior, st. more 

 or less leafy, I. lohed, cilia all jointed. — See Baker in J. 

 o/£. viii. 280, 355. 



8. S. ccsspitdsa (L.) ; root-l. crowded 3 — 6-cleft blunt veined 

 fringed, fl. 1 — 5, pet. rounded 3-veined, cal. half inferior, sep. 

 blunt. — Barren st. very short. Fl. white, Germen broad and 

 rounded below. Common base of the 1. not furrowed. Anth. 

 long, cordate vyith an open notch. Horns of caps, spreading. — 

 13. S. incurvifolia (D. Don) ; stem-1. more numerous with in- 

 curved lobes. -B. jB. 8. 2909. — Very rare. Caernarvonshire. 

 Aberdeenshire. Kerry. P. V. VI. E. S. 



9. S. Stem'hergii (Willd.) ; I. crowded 3 — 4-cleft, lohes lanceo- 

 late pointed fringed, fl. few (usually 3) loosely panicled, pet. 

 obovate 3-veined, cal. half inferior, sep. bluntish. — S. hirta Sm. 

 E. B. 2291 (not Haw.). — L. on the barren shoots as well as the 

 radical 1. 3-cleft, the lateral lobes often divided halfway down, 

 lobes diverging. Barren shoots 3 — 6 or 8 in. long, weak. Fl.- 

 st. hairy glandular, bearing 2 or 3 deeply 3-lobed 1. and a few 

 simple linear bracts; lateral fr.-ped. much overtopping the inter- 

 mediate one. El.:white. Anth. large, round, with a deep parallel- 

 sided notch. Horns of caps, slightly spreading.^— <S; decipiens 

 (Sm.) is hardly distinguishable, it is found at Llya y Own, N. 

 Wales. — Summit of Brandon Mountain, Kerry ; Galty More,. 

 Tipperary. West of Scotland. Mr. G. Don. P. VII. E. S. I. 



10. S. sponherriica (Gm.) ; 1. of the barren shoots 3 — 5-lobed 

 with a very broad base fringed, lobes linear acute, fl. few (2 — 4), 

 pet. oblong 3-veuied, cal. half inferior deeply divided into ti\- 

 augvlax subulate sepals. — S.affinisTiaa. JE. B. S. 290S. S.pin- 

 natifida Haw. — The 5-cleft 1. few. St. 1 — 3 in. high, erect, 

 with a few linear simple leaves, glandular. Fl. white. Anth. 

 i as large as in Sp. 8 and 9, cordate-ovate. Horns of caps, 

 spreading. — The original 8. affinis has pet. with inflexed sides : 

 8. platypetala (E. B. 2276) has them broad and flat. — Moun- 

 tains. P. VH. E. S. I. 



11. S. hypnoVdes (L^\ root-l. 3 — 5-d&it those of the trailing 

 shoots undivided or S-cleft, lobes all acute bristle-pointed and 

 fringed.calyx half inferior, sep. triangular-subulate or ovate acute. 



B. B. 454.— Fl. white. Anth. very small, oblong-ovate. 



Horns of caps, divaricate. Differs from the preceding by having 

 usuaUv buds in the axils of the barren shoots. — Mountains. P. 



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